President Clinton, given the name of the "first black president" what assistants was given to blacks.....

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President Clinton, given the name of the "first black president" what assistants was given to blacks or what improvements was made during his term in office?

Answer 1

I've wondered that myself.

Answer 2

Clinton was a President of the people. He reached out and touched the Black Community. The fact is that most people were better off economically during his term. And when he moved to NY and put his office in Harlem he enhanced the area during its much needed restoration. I am not a Black but do feel like the Clinton Era was a time of Uniting People not the division of the current White House.

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President Bill Clinton stands out with D.C. guidance counselor Shirley Shannon. She smiled as she recalled the abundance of black advisers and officials who were part of his administration and how openly Clinton reached out to the black community. He hired African American colleagues as consultants and cabinet members. "He pulled from some of our brightest blacks," Shannon said.

A Democrat, Clinton represented black people, who are overwhelmingly Democrats, and unlike many white politicians, did not shy away from combating racial issues, she said. Michelle Lewis, a professor of psychology at Villa Junior College in Stevenson, Md., expressed reservations about the Clinton administration?s effectiveness in helping black progress, but said that his finding a political home in New York?s Harlem was a testament to his connection with African Americans

Answer 4

President Clinton had quite a few black assistants.

Answer 5

bill Clinton is an particularly pusuasive politican, he has aura and is familiar with a thank you to charm to the a lot. His presidency had execs and cons as does any presidents. yet enable me make it easier to be attentive to whilst he seems in the replicate he's white. might he have been elected if he became into black, in all probability no longer , might desire to a black guy get away with all the scandalous crap that became into revealed approximately clinton earlier than his election and relection, i think of no longer! Lyndon Johnson surpassed the civil rights act in 1964, does that make him Black i think of no longer. White people won't be able to be black, they might empathize with the stressful circumstances and struggles that minorities have confronted in the previous and proceed to stand , yet they do no longer seem to be black. they might include black way of life as we would desire to continually include and rejoice all forms of distinctive cultures which contain our very own , and get off the black and white ingredient, each race and creed and shade and nationality have a lot to offer and for something of the international to income and hit upon. Why might desire to that which makes us distinctive divide us? this is oppoosite of what the elementary ideals of our u . s . is approximately! Why won't be able to our transformations deliver us mutually and make us extra distinctive and understanding . Who became into in workplace whilst the equivalent rights ammendment became into surpassed??? became into that president reported simply by fact the 1st lady President??? i think of no longer! there is now a candidate now , whom if elected might desire to be the 1st Black president, And whilst he seems in the replicate , he does see a black guy. bill Clinton is approximately as black as my white Irish ***!!!

Answer 6

JFK was that first "black president" clinton was alot like JFK, if JFK didnt get shot things would have been better for blacks back then.

Answer 7

Well, here is an eye-opener for everyone. The first "black president" is a racist. He panders to anyone to get their votes and they're buying it:

http://sonic.net/maledicta/clintons.html

Answer 8

Sorry - I can not answer your incoherent statement / question.

Please tell your parents to send you to a better school.

Answer 9

Because he sat by and let genocide take place in Rwanda and only evacuated the white American citizens.

Answer 10

Why blacks love Bill Clinton

DeWayne Wickham talks about African-Americans' overwhelming support for the 42nd president, and why they like him more than Colin Powell and Jesse Jackson.

By Suzy Hansen
February 20, 2002 | In her now-famous defense of a scandal-plagued Bill Clinton, Nobel prizewinner Toni Morrison, went so far as to call him "our first black president. Blacker than any actual black person who could ever be elected in our children's lifetime." "Clinton," Morrison wrote in the 1998 New Yorker essay, "displays almost every trope of blackness: single-parent household, born poor, working-class, saxophone-playing, McDonald's-and-junk-food-loving boy from Arkansas."

I remember reading Morrison's essay and choking. Morrison's estimation of Clinton's blackness seemed shallow, offensive and beside the point. At the time, I wasn't the only one unnerved, and I'm sure many people still have problems with calling Clinton "the first black president," no matter how Morrison intended it. Yet, in retrospect, I realize that my sharp reaction had something to do with age: I was pretty young when Reagan and Bush were in office. Like most white people, I didn't understand how Clinton related to the African-American community; I also had a limited memory of how other presidents treated blacks.

DeWayne Wickham's "Bill Clinton and Black America," mostly a collection of interviews he conducted with such African-Americans as NAACP president Kweisi Mfume, actor Tim Reid and columnist Betty Baye, fills in both gaps. The book specifically illuminates how blacks responded to Clinton and just how different his presidency was from every other one in American history. The latter might be Wickham's more important point.
Clinton, despite some notable blunders (especially welfare reform), impressed blacks with his policies -- particularly his many appointments of African-Americans. More famously, Clinton radiated a certain style. As Bill Campbell, former mayor of Atlanta, notes, "We know when white folks are comfortable around us and when they're not." And while some of that convincing style had to do with Clinton's genuine interest in black culture, much of it had to do with -- as Morrison and many others have pointed out -- his poor, Southern roots.
Wickham, a columnist for USA Today, spoke to Salon about what that Toni Morrison essay really meant, why Clinton tops Colin Powell and Jesse Jackson in the eyes of black Americans and why it doesn't really matter whether Clinton's sincere or not.
I've been waiting for a book about this because I remember the Toni Morrison piece ...

And you wondered, "What does she mean by that?"
Yes, and I remember thinking that the reasons why she called him the "first black president" were offensive. What was the general reaction to that piece?

It was very mixed among the people I interviewed. Keep in mind -- I set out to interview people who like Bill Clinton. That's the purpose of this book. The purpose of the book was not to figure out who likes him and who doesn't like him and why each side takes a position. Ninety percent of African-Americans like Bill Clinton. And when I talked to these people, even among them, I found a variance of opinions about the notion that Bill Clinton might be the first black president. Nobody takes that idea seriously, but people attempted to explain why one would think that way, and there were some who, like you, were offended at the suggestion.

My initial thought was, It can't sit well with African-Americans to call any white man, a black man. But you note that it was tongue-in-cheek, right?
It certainly was tongue-in-cheek on Toni Morrison's part. Anyone who reads the totality of what she said clearly understands that she's painting a picture. But I think that in many ways it diminished what Clinton did to suggest that he is black. Because if you're black and you did those things, now you begin to argue, "Man, you could have done more than that [for us], brother." But the fact that he is white and did that much is quite remarkable.
Why do you think white people might wrinkle up their noses at the idea?

Largely because they don't understand the history of the relationship between African-Americans and the 41 white men who have encumbered the Oval Office.
You do explain how poorly previous presidents have treated -- or haven't treated at all, for that matter -- the black community. Do you think the black community's enthusiasm for Clinton has something to do with the fact that Reagan and Bush were particularly insensitive? Was Clinton refreshing?

Ronald Reagan and George Bush I were part of a long line of presidents who just didn't get it when it comes to people of color, particularly African-Americans. Of the first 15 presidents, 13 of them were staunch supporters of slavery. Eight of them actually owned slaves. Only John Adams and John Quincy Adams had no stomach for the institution. When you start talking about 41 presidents, you've already lost a third of them right there.

Then, what you find is that most presidents ran away from the black community. It was a difficult issue during slavery for white politicians. It was a difficult issue in the post-slavery period for politicians. It was a tough issue for a lot of presidents during the Jim Crow era when blacks were knocking on doors, demanding anti-lynching legislation, and Southern politicians were coming into the halls of Congress and the Oval Office, saying, "Not on our watch will you push that kind of legislation upon our people." The legislators had the power of the vote in Congress, and African-Americans had only, on their side, the moral high ground. Most presidents opted for the power of the vote. You have to get up to FDR and LBJ -- on whose watch the important civil rights legislation in our history was passed. So the list is very short.

http://dir.salon.com/story/books/int/2002/02/20/clinton/index.html